Sentences with phrase «rather lord over»

They do not serve it, but rather lord over it to convert it into something it's natively not.

Not exact matches

In an especially astute bit of exegesis, Hays points out that the story of Jesus walking on the water (6:45 — 52) does not recall Moses and the Exodus sea - crossing but rather the peerless God of Job 9:4 — 11, the Lord of creation who triumphs over chaos.

Sam Adams, pastor of a nondenominational church in California, called the ritual a powerful demonstration that everyone present is equally struggling to be a disciple rather than trying to impress or lord it over one another.

In the name of the one who taught us not to lord over others but rather to serve them (Matt 20:25 - 28), the church often lorded over others with a vengeance as ruthless as any version of the kingdom of the world ever has.

The report repeatedly stresses that «this crisis [is] one of the episcopacy as much as it is a crisis of the priesthood,» and it cites the 2003 apostolic exhortation by John Paul II, Pastores Gregis: «The title of Bishop is one of service, not of honor, and therefore a Bishop should strive to benefit others rather than to lord it over them.

And the term «Lord» has been interpreted like the word «king» as an analogical description of God's rule over creation, rather than a stand - in for the unpronounceable name.

The Bible tells Christians not to «lord it over people,» but rather to be one another's servants.

If not, we don't beat them over the head, but rather just move on and trust that the Lord will, as you say, change belief structures... or not!

You were called to be part of God's family for the same reason that Abraham was called and the Jewish people were called and all of God's people are called... not to lord your position over others and think that you are smarter and more blessed than others, but rather to be a blessing and a help to them.

However Ritschlianism was already giving way to the religionsgeschichtliche Schule, whose philosophy of religion centred in a decided preference for cultic experience over ethical action, and whose historical reconstruction saw primitive Christianity orientated like other Hellenistic religions to the cult's dying and rising Lord, rather than to the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount.

«You know that the princes of the nations are those who lord it over them, and their great men rule them by force; but it is not to be so among you; rather he who will be great among you, let him be your servant, and he who will be the first among you, let him be the servant of all.»

Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has pressed the Prime Minister over the rather fraught issue of Lord Falconer's pension.

Over to Lord Reid: «It may well be that, if it can be shown that a person has no legitimate interest, financial or otherwise, in performing the contract rather than claiming damages, he ought not to be allowed to saddle the other party with an additional burden with no benefit to himself.

In rather the same way that an amicable divorce can turn sour when claims for money begin, so the post-action nit - picking over costs provides an ideal breeding ground for Lord Phillips» warfare scenario.